Sex Differences in the Behavioral Response to Spatial and Object Novelty in Adult C57BL/6 Mice

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 117, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1283-1291

  Frick, Karyn M ^a   Gresack, Jodi E ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISPLACEMENT BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OBJECT NOVELTY; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; RECOGNITION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPATIAL MEMORY; SPATIAL NOVELTY;

ANIMALS; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; SEX FACTORS; SPACE PERCEPTION; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 0346995345     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.117.6.1283     Document Type: Article

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